Unknown Mortal OrchestraSex & Food

The follow-up to their critically acclaimed record Multi-Love, Sex & Food sees UMO mastermind Ruban Nielson tap into both familiar and unexpected territory.

The delightfully shape-shifting album filters real-deal serious themes such as "What are we consuming? How is it affecting us, and why does everything feel so bad and weird sometimes?" through a vibrant sonic lens that spans battered drum-machine funk, doomy and thrashing rock, and pink-hued psychedelic disco. It's not a dark record, per se. Even the album's title, Sex & Food, focuses on two of the most undeniably pleasurable experiences in life; positivity despite the strangeness of our times.

Sex & Food was recorded in a variety of locales from Seoul and Hanoi to Reykjavik, Mexico City, and Auckland, not to mention Nielson's home base studio in Portland. It is a practical musical travelogue, traversing the world as well as a wide spectrum of human experience. Nielson grapples with new, sometimes dismal realities, but succeeds in pulling the epiphanies from the chafe.

Tracks:

1. A God Called Hubris2. Major League Chemicals3. Ministry of Alienation4. Hunnybee5. Chronos Feasts on His Children6. American Guilt7. The Internet of Love (That Way)8. Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays9. This Doomsday10. How Many Zeros11. Not in Love We're Just High12. If You're Going to Break Yourself